The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Intercs, Gathered from Various
quarters.

The sculler should he like the oyster,
quite mt home in his shell.
Fourteen new cases of cholera and six
deaths have been reported mt Malta.
The village of Sandusky, Mich. was
nearly wiped out by a fire yesterday.
Thomas J. Mooney who set fire to the
National Line steamer Queen has been de
clarcd to he insane.
"A whining platform" is what the Rich,
moTd D{SpGth teams the recent declaration
of the Virginia Democrats.
From nearly Il million members a few
months ago, the Rights of Labor have de
creased to about six hundred thousand.
\ New York boy six years old drank Il
pint Of brandy the other day. 1t burnt out
his little life in a few hours.
Judge Bond has again decided against the
North Carolina tax on non rcsidcnt drum
mcrs.
a Havana dispatch says that since We'd
ncSNiay there have been indications II a cy-
clone southwest of that city.
The disaster to the rice crop on the Sa-
vannah river seems almOst complete. Only
Il few hundred acres escaped destruction.
Rains have been general in Iowa, Illinois
and Michigan, and thc crops which, 4 few
days ago, seemed lost, arc now saved.
Tho Savannah river is up again at Au-
gus;n. and il is feared that the rise will
equal that which visited the city some days
ago.
Small poX and yellow fever arc raging
in Havana, Cuba. For July there were
10l deaths from yellow fever and lip from
small poX.
Mrs, Cleveland is making a collection OF
New England moses and ferns for the
adornmcnt of the White House library al
ter her return.
General Neal Dow, who is now il
Maine, thinks it morally certain that the
prohihitionists will nominate n national
ticket next year.
t.iJ has visited the Milwaukee section
o! W. jscOpsin, ending u sixty days drOuth
VIII h has caused a loss of thousands of
dor RS to the farmers,
jerry Pagelcs, murderer Of Samuel
k"In. and sentenced to be hanged on the
2Glh ilo.., nj St. Louis, committed suicide
in his cell Monday night.
\ fire occurred in a largc warehouse in
Concord, \. II, yesterday. Eight men
in tnr fourth story had 20 Jump from Che
windows, and all received severe injuries.
la,,.uin S. S. Brown. of Pittsburg, hay
in made 800. 0GO on Trouhldour, thinks
il is about time to rive the great race horse
a rest.
Now that the wall paper pool has plas.
tcrc, the country over with japanese de
signs, ii announces that these must rive
wa! ~ o'c"''. l'V'c'nS.
During a fire in ST. Louis on Wednesday
morning three iircmcn were killed and four
injured by the fall OF II wall. One Of the
injured will die.
They must have plenty of money up in
Iohncotc''' i Wch'N-ohG thouSanu collars
mas IaiN uhclM'hcd ma Hartford savings
oal% Tor twenty years.
The employees of Park Bros. * Co., OF
hatiIo"!E GOO ao GEGH ~ S,rucM. Ailcr lhry
g." WA i ~ = ,.in - ~ t"on "e"' "'H>
-" >, 10y '"'S ~. "
nc DcSt P,lu man journalist In the
word i MIS-. crawford, Inc well known
larI' correspondents She earns 10000 a
S'"''
~ camp meeting I" NGShainlny 5 Grove
nca. irIli'uc,Sni1 ON IncSdRy drew 10
Ecc,,'tI WY ii'Voo persons we've trans
"'"'l I".uic' wagons ana lofty one ny
'yc'os carried inc cNcursioNlstS.
!i'e IN thc packin" house OF i VI. Sin
ciai' ~ N"' OF I,tuir RAPIDS, Iowa, de
sr'''' me Iai%h,elInE department ana
AN room Loss IS %"O,NUU; INSURANCE
3o".''''
Charles Williams, Who WAS gunliucd in
, ~ II"-"m ,IIII,,iia{{ u, 40! me
oo, |'t '"',I N''.'1"' s"L't. II"t tlc
H." i,iI' MN, ~. ny a. GI", M"S tIMcn rom
- - ',."''I y .'''n'''' 20" i'''Ac"'
Nt JnstCo Gray IS inc only bachelor on
- h,,l how ar ~ : ,i '. i,I''''i i - JMs't,u -
s,,J n n3nn,,;'b %a,,soi ~ S'IW ~ nv
nror,iso "'''o i" "''''"
w. 49,,
:; ! II 'ist ioliSil newspaper eyer prlhtcd
IA america mas nrcn started IN EuilaIO. II
lion Vii he Eiy%n 70 onv Amcricon TmrITmn
| can n]rononncr The non,n ~ ,hn mn,r in,,nnI
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l"c demand Tor PRESIDENT Cleveland IS
Incoming universal. Even little joe Fora
kcr wine" rev furious over the ilng order,
m "n JI,",'t ""M" S'.nEic"'Iy 10 UCS INC
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